Thursday, July 25, 2013

Market For Severed Human Penis' Growing Fast

State prosecutor Cecilia Zangazanga made the observation as four
people were jailed for trying to sell private parts for 8m kwacha
(£16,000) in May, reports the UK-based Nyasa Times.
Two of them were arrested at a petrol station in the capital,
Lilongwe, having been supplied with the genitalia by a hospital mortuary
supervisor and attendant who'd cut the tissue from a corpse, the report
says. The quartet was jailed for a total of 26 years.

Zangazanga asked for a long sentence as a deterrent, saying
the number of cases was increasing, reports the site which has
correspondents across the southern African state. In April, it reported
that a 30-year-old businessman was fighting for life after having his
genitals cut off in an attack in the southern city of Zomba. After a
similar assault a year earlier, the website called the trade a sign of
people's desperation to escape poverty. Genitals were in "high demand
from witchdoctors", while "merchants" also sold penises and testicles
abroad, it said.